VIDEO: Kandle performs ‘Control Me’ live in studio

Growing up in B.C., Kandle Osborne spent the majority of her youth idolizing her father, 54-40 singer Neil Osborne, and his circle of like-minded musicians. But when the nascent songstress expressed an interest in joining their ranks, she found her idols weren’t as accommodating as she expected.

“My last name really worked against me at first,” the 23-year-old recalled recently. “I thought that knowing people and growing up in this industry it would be easy but nobody even listed to my E.P. Nobody took me seriously, they were all like, ‘Oh, that’s cute of you.’ I was like, ‘Cute?!’”

Sitting in the Postmedia cafeteria, Kandle said she felt the only way to succeed would be to become anonymous, so she moved to Montreal, “where nobody spoke English and nobody knew my family and boom I’m signed and touring France within a few weeks.”

Now a days, Neil Osborne plays the role of roadie to his daughter, whose debut album, In Flames, was just released by Montreal’s Dare To Care records.

With dad looking on, Kandle performed an acoustic version of that album’s standout track, “Control Me,”for National Post Sessions.

“That song is literally about being tired of being lonely,” she explained. “Realizing it’s your own fault because you shut yourself away from people and from life because you’re scared of it.”